Giza

A 15-night cruise from Barcelona to Dubai, with stops in Egypt and Jordan, on Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas

... the 15-20 buses that came from the cruiseship. (In addition to my tour, there were four other tours that included the Pyramids of Giza.) Being the #1 tourist attraction in Egypt, the scene at the Giza Plateau is quite intense. There were dozens of vendors ...

We had 4 stops today to the most famous sites around Cairo including, Giza, Memphis, Saqqara and Dahsur.  We hired a taxi to take us to all 4 stops for about $30, which is a  bargain considering most private hotels offer a tour to the pyramids ...

... and behaved very well with us. Once we get used with it, we were so happy to start our expedition with camels into Giza Pyramid Plateau.    After paying the entrance ticket by our guide, he dropped us near to The Sphinx's entrance. He told us ...

... to this historical site that dated back to the 2560 BC, we couldn't believe the awe we were feeling about these pyramids of Giza. Now they were unbelieveable! So why were these pyramids placed in the desert on the west bank of the Nile River? Of course, ...